October 03, 2006

NY Historical Society launches slavery podcasts

As part of its multi-year examination of slavery's roots in New York City, the New-York Historical Society is launching a set of free, unique podcasts briefly tracing the lives of important African-Americans such as Pierre Toussaint and Henry Highland Garnet and places such as African Free School No. 2 in Five Points and Old St. Patrick's Cathedral, now in Little Italy.

The podcasts can be loaded up on an iPod-type player (with historic video clips if your device is fancy enough,) viewed online, or heard by phone by calling (800) 895-8161.

Come November 17, NYHS will open "New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War."

Other new museum podcasts:

Met Museum podcasts - "New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori" and "Sean Scully: Wall of Light"
MoMA podcast - "Out of Time: A Contemporary View"
Brooklyn Museum podcast - "Looking Back from Ground Zero" (coming soon)
World Trade Center Memorial Foundation podcasts - North Tower survivor and "Faces of Ground Zero" photographer

Earlier: New York podcasts: museums, music and more

October 3, 2006 08:11 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, History, Kids, Museums, Techology, Tours, Upper West Side

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